In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...